Things you vowed as a child

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Thinking about the thread "things you vowed before becoming a parent", do you remember making any childhood vows on things you would or wouldn't do when grown up, realistic or otherwise? And did you keep them?

Aged ten, I swore never to smoke or drink alcohol. I kept to the former, but not the latter. One of the adults quoted me on it when I did drink a few years later!

I remember also putting all my Lego away "to give to my children"; that didn't last.

Never to get married or have children.
Oops.

I was definitely going to marry McGyver 😂

My mother used to pluck fluff from the bottom of the kitchen chair legs when she was sweeping the floor. She also used to pull fluff and hair from the sweeping brush.

As a child I thought this was beyond the pale! No way would I ever be so boring and interested in dirt as to actually do this!

Guess what, I do it every day now 😐

I told my mum, aged about7, that I would live in Melton Mowbray when I was grown up, to eat pork pies every day.
I lived about 10 miles from Melton for over 7 years so nearly!

I also vowed to have cane furniture. This was because we lived in a terraced house and if we moved the sofa etc from one room to another, we had to carry it all the way round the block. The house had a strange dog leg in the hallway so you couldn't go from the front room to the back.
I thought cane furniture would be light to carry. I've not got cane furniture but live in a house that is easy to move stuff around inside.

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I vowed I would have six children even thought my mother gently suggested one or two and see how you go ....

Two was more than enough !